What is the best compression utility?

(WinRAR )

Hate WinZip, Long live WinRAR

Definitly winrar..

WinRar. No questions about it.

|Drew|

This poll has been done before.
And winrar ownz!!

I couldn't find it...

tar -cf

Winrar, no contest

Without a doubt, WinRAR.

defintely Winzip LOL!.. not
WIN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!! for me

Winrar, without any doubt Winrar!

Winace....

winrar for creating useless zipfiles no just give me winrar the best atm

winrar

WinRAR

Well, if you're looking for the "Best compression utility" 7zip has one of the best compression methods around, far better than what WinRAR can do. But the most widely used compression tool around is probably WinRAR these days

When after to use WinRAR.Nobody want to change it

i still use pkzip...

nah, winrar and winace are the only good ones ive come across

I used winACE for a long time but figured out that the good ol' winRAR still owns

winACE has better compression, but has problems reading RAR-files... and a couple of other general errors...

so everybody: KEEP THE BEST FILECOMPRESSER ALIVE! USE WINRAR!

ease of use: winzip
Options: WinRAR

ease of use: WinRAR
options : WinRAR
have no problems with : WinRAR
has recovery option : WinRAR
sucks: Winzip it!

i was torn between winrar and winace until i discovered winrar could extract .EXEs.

WinRAR because of the multimedia compression

Gzip.

heh, nah its WinRAR

winrar, because of its ability to create SFX files that can extract to defined paths (%programfiles%, %appdata%, etc.)

winzip is out of contention for me, but it's amazing the way winrar's gained reputation - when I started using winrar 2.50 in 2000, it had no attraction for me except that it could repair zips and rars, and winzip was pretty good at ver7.0.

Lots of winrar lovers. Never used it myself. I've used Iceows, Bigspeedzipper, Izarc, and 7zip. Izarc is my fave.

Have used both and find Winrar ok but still stick to winzip?

this poll need not have been conducted
its a known thing that winRAR rulzzzz.

for someone qouted he/she could'nt find the poll conducted earlier,
it needn't have been conducted on msfn.may b it was somewhere else.

greatest avatar ever.


up the irons

WinRAR is the only choice i was actually shocked to find out there are other compression utilities i thinks i am sticking with winRAR it does exactly what it says on the tin

I like 7zip better as a program and how the context menus are formatted, but WinRAR .rar file is supperior compression. I wondered at one point and tested all 7zip supported formats at various settings and then tried WinRAR and RAR came out on top.

7zip's LZMA compression is better than WinRAR's RAR compression.
However WinRAR can achieve better compression on multimedia files because it has some "filters". Some filters are developped for 7-zip too but not yet included in the official 7-zip.

For general use, WinRAR. For best compression, KGB Archiver, WinRK, PAQ8o, DURILCA, and other programs you never heard about.

You must be mad to compress using PAQ and others.

I am just used to winrar. If it could make iso and compress to lzx21 then wow.

Hey peeps , you might want to notice that this thread dates back to 2004.

At the time Winrar was probably the best one around, nowadays 7zip or Izarc are better, or at least equal in functionalities and are several bucks cheaper.

KGB has a tight compression, but how muach time does it take to compress and decompress?

WinRK is said to be (slightly) the best one around, but not freeware.


jaclaz

Yes but it seems to be in fashion to revive old threads on msfn recently so let's be fashon-victims.

WinRAR Rewlz!!!!

Hello

Winrar for some years ! but i was fed up to buy it or cracked it ! oups !

So welcome 7-Zip, the best compression software even if it doesn't have all compression format. but in 7z, it has a wonderful compression ratio !

Try it, love it !

winrar does hav best compression by far, but i never compress files, only open them, so for that i use winzip, ease of use, but i hav winrar as well

IMHO first 7-Zip, then WinUHA and then WinRAR ...

A nice link to a comparison of compression programs with compression ratios and speed ratings.

http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf.php

no it doesn't, 7zip is far better, and it's faster at extracting

why the hell was this thread brought back up again, it's from 2003 for god's sake

It's because of the thing giving "related" topics at the end of the page : it doesn't take the date into account.

But it's considerably slower at compression for a given resulting output size. And it uses more RAM... and people who aren't entirely techno-savvy have a harder time with 7zip than they do with WinRAR (for the most part).

They each have their advantages.

Yep, as I see it, 7zip has about 35,94 € of advantages:
http://www.winrar.it/listino.html

I am greedy, I know

jaclaz

7zip is my favourite

haha and the winner is

winrar is very good. it can extract files quicker that winzip.
winzip, however - (and you may want to test this for yourself) - can compress quicker than winrar.
therefor, I use winrar to unzip, and winzip to zip.

I use 7-Zip.